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Post-event evaluation of residual capacity of building structures based on seismic monitoring

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Structural capacity evaluation is essential to support the safety assessment and decision-making process of existing building structures after disastrous earthquakes. Current post-earthquake evaluation practices rely more on manual on-site inspections, which are labor-intensive and subjective. A simulation-based capacity evaluation could be a desired alternative when numerical models for these buildings are prior-identified and updated using structural health monitoring data. This study proposes a procedure for identifying the capacity curve and assessing the residual capacity of existing structures using seismic monitoring data. The mass-normalized spectral acceleration-displacement (AD format) relation is first defined in a single-degree-of-freedom system. Considering the post-event deterioration of structural capacity, a data-driven reduction factor for the capacity curve is introduced to quantify the potential structural degradation. With the aid of the updated capacity curve, the residual capacity of the earthquake-damaged structure is then predicted via incremental dynamic analysis. The feasibility and accuracy of the proposed method are analyzed via numerical simulations and further validated using a large-scale shaking table test and a real-world instrumented building. Results show that the proposed method could identify the capacity curve of the existing structure from seismic monitoring data and estimate the hysteresis responses with a favorable agreement. It could provide the residual capacity of the target structure and quantify its capacity reduction, which can informatively facilitate the post-earthquake structural safety management.

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This study is sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 52278312), and the Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute (Grant: SQZ202310).

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  1. Department of Disaster Mitigation for Structures, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

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Wang, L., Shan, J. Post-event evaluation of residual capacity of building structures based on seismic monitoring. J Civil Struct Health Monit (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-024-00803-y

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